The flying kangaroo won’t be hopping overseas as soon as originally hoped, after posting a “stark, but not surprising” loss.

The flying kangaroo has just dodged having to pay workers thousands of dollars in back pay in its latest legal stoush against the unions.

Deputy PM Michael McCormack has decided to loosen the government’s purse strings and help out Qantas and Virgin a little more.

To be fair, Aussies were expecting to be able to travel to New Zealand by now, but the closest we can get is watching Flight of the Conchords while sipping a pinot noir from the Marlborough region.

The airline will not be required to pay stood-down workers sick pay, including a man who has been battling cancer and another with heart disease.

The charismatic billionaire entrepreneur is back in the headlines. However, this time it’s got nothing to do with him riding around on a luggage carousel with giant sushi.

A Senate committee will be placing Allan Joyce and Jayne Hrdlicka under the microscope as it maps out the survival of the aviation sector.

And by fake Alan Joyce, we mean an unidentified man putting on a very thick Irish accent and coming up with any excuse to say “tink” instead of “think”.

Numerous reports of Paul Scurrah’s imminent departure from Virgin Australia have finally been confirmed.

The Flying Kangaroo’s cost-saving targets just became a little harder to hit after this court decision.

We can’t promise this week’s Aviation Wrap is all good news, but at least Rex shareholders and Velocity Frequent Flyers have something to cheer about.

An internal document from 2010 that shows Qantas had planned to outsource its ground handling work by 2020 has been obtained by the media.